Forwarded from Book Club
There were apparently debates on whether or not women had souls in Virginia
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Forwarded from Book Club
Liberty as individualism would be a completely alien idea to the Puritans. Liberty as a concept was intrinsically tied to the body of the community and not in an equal distribution of privileges. This sentiment continued on into Revolutionary days.
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These excerpts are taken from Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer
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Forwarded from Presbyterian and Reformed (Peter Ramus)
Today's experimental Puritan popularizers couldn't even hold that rifle. @Presbyterianism
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Forwarded from Caleb
“In fact these dark skinned people would have worried them to a point that they would become part of their denoscriptions of the devil himself. The few records that exist of the Puritans describing what they felt was the devil sound a lot like a black man dressed like an Indian. Therefore black or red did not really matter to them, they were all the devil’s children if they were not created in God’s image of being White.”
—Ideas Of Race In The Puritan, Frank Pomeroy
—Ideas Of Race In The Puritan, Frank Pomeroy
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Forwarded from Caleb
Colonial Virginia September 17th, 1630.
[Perhaps Hugh Davis received a whipping and had to acknowledge that he committed fornication with an African woman because the legislators believed that interracial fornication was more sinful. Compare Davis's punishment with that handed out to Robert Sweat in 1640.]
[Perhaps Hugh Davis received a whipping and had to acknowledge that he committed fornication with an African woman because the legislators believed that interracial fornication was more sinful. Compare Davis's punishment with that handed out to Robert Sweat in 1640.]
Hugh Davis to be soundly whipped, before an assembly of Negroes and others for abusing himself to the dishonor of God and shame of Christians, by defiling his body in lying with a negress; which fault he is to acknowledge next Sabbath day.
Source: Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large, vol. 1, p. 146.❤5
Forwarded from Caleb
Herman Bavinck in a journal entry from that period (1908), he wrote about how “a Southerner” had told him African Americans were “not humans” (rather, he was told, they were a mixture of human and ape).
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